H3808–לֹא–lo

they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the E'phraimites.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Mano'ah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines."

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And the angel of the LORD said to Mano'ah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Mano'ah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)

לֹא־ lo'- “not”לֹא־ lo'- “not”

The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Mano'ah and to his wife. Then Mano'ah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”

But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

וְלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

הֲלֹֽא׃ (לֹֽא) Lo' “[is it] not [so]”

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”לֹ֣א lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Pray take her instead."

הֲלֹ֨א (לֹ֨א) Lo' “not”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."

הֲלֹ֤א (לֹ֤א) Lo' “not”

They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

לֹ֚א lo' “In-”לֹ֣א lo' “not”

And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

לֹא־ lo'- “not”

Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”